Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed alongside four colleagues in a targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City.
Seven people were killed in the attack on the tent located outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital late on Sunday evening, including Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa.
Death, death to the IDF!
The strike killed seven and maimed eight. All but Anas al-Sharif were collateral damage. The justification for the strike was killing al-Sharif, who Israel says was secretly hiding Hamas soldiers in his backpack.
For what it’s worth, in 2024 he won the Human Rights Defender award by Amnesty, and no less than the Pulitzer Prize (Breaking News Photography category).
They’re just dying, imagine if they were israelis : https://x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1954670507128914219
This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings.
Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my people, ever since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that Allah would extend my life so I could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of occupied Asqalan (Al-Majdal). But Allah’s will came first, and His decree is final. I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification—so that Allah may bear witness against those who stayed silent, those who accepted our killing, those who choked our breath, and whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered remains of our children and women, doing nothing to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half.
I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls.
I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family. I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed.
I entrust you with my dear son Salah, whom I had wished to support and accompany through life until he grew strong enough to carry my burden and continue the mission.
I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose blessed prayers brought me to where I am, whose supplications were my fortress and whose light guided my path. I pray that Allah grants her strength and rewards her on my behalf with the best of rewards.
I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah (Bayan), from whom the war separated me for many long days and months. Yet she remained faithful to our bond, steadfast as the trunk of an olive tree that does not bend—patient, trusting in Allah, and carrying the responsibility in my absence with all her strength and faith.
I urge you to stand by them, to be their support after Allah Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles. I testify before Allah that I am content with His decree, certain of meeting Him, and assured that what is with Allah is better and everlasting.O Allah, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family. Forgive me if I have fallen short, and pray for me with mercy, for I kept my promise and never changed or betrayed it.
Do not forget Gaza… And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.
Anas Jamal Al-Sharif 06.04.2025
This is what our beloved Anas requested to be published upon his martyrdom.
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After the massacres in south-east Asia in the 50-60s, the coups&dictatorships of the 70-80s in South America(, the remnants of european communism in the 90s), Netanyahu was a first witness to the massacres of the 2000-2010s in the Middle-East, he overturned 1991, and could say that there’s no credible other path left now.
However, the UK could have pretended the same impossibility of a life with palestinians in order to deny Ireland’s independence, or white south africans in order to refuse an end to the apartheid, either with two states, or with a multi-ethnic state like Belgium or Switzerland. Seems doable.
But Israel “just” wants the whole sacred lands for themselves, even if it matters for the other monotheist religions as well. They could share instead.Israel murders = US murders.
Fucking demons. They all should see the darkest hole of a prison for the rest of their lives.
This is how you know not to trust Israel: when independent journalists are murdered, blocking the truth from getting out.
Sadly, I don’t believe that they will see any consequences of their actions.
IDF is a fascist, terrorist entity.
Whoa whoa whoa. Israel targets civilians so often that they are bound to murder entire journalism teams at once.
We can’t assume intent until an investigation is completed by… Oh yeah.
Fucking monsters.
The IDF admitted they killed him intentionally and said he was KHAMAAS
If palestinians had to kill every IDF supporter there wouldn’t be many left standing in Israel.
There’re no foreign journalists allowed in, and almost no local journalists left to cover Gaza city’s razing.
But why?? What is the point to the senselessness of this?
Anas Al Sharif was the only journalist left in North Gaza. He reports on the most dangerous scenes without fear for his life. He would have covered the Israeli genocide in Gaza city.
It’s to remove anyone that would testify against the Zionists should the world finally hold them accountable and arrest their leaders.
With no one to report facts, the narrative can be constructed to say anything they want.
It’s crazy that this isn’t immediately self-apparent to people…
Maybe Israel wants to control the narrative and Gaza’s journalists are getting in the way.
Maybe they want revenge on Palestinians for daring to risist. Same reason they bomb hospitals and kitchens and schools. Same reason the mow down crowds of aid seekers. Same reason they target children for daring to be born. Same reason they torture doctors. They’re trying to break the will of the people and punish them for daring to resist, and make themselves feel powerful and godlike even though they still can’t actually win.
Or maybe the cruelty is the point, they’re so poisoned by their own propaganda that they just delight in genocide for its own sake. Winning isn’t the point anymore and it’s just about inflicting suffering and terror and death.
Are they actively resisting though? I’m pretty sure Israel is just performing ethnic cleansing of the area.
Medical staff continue treating the wounded even though they have basically no supplies left and their jobs have been made nearly impossible, Hamas still continues killing occupation troops, Ansar Allah continues enforcing its Red Sea blockade, there are many forms of resistance still happening even in this late stage of the genocide.
But even the very act of living is resistance in a time of genocide. Even the people who don’t pick up a gauze or a gun are resisting, merely because they haven’t given up the will to live.
Evil
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So journalists’ lives only matter if lemmy user Velypso knows their name?
Imagine Russia targeted tents full of journalists you’ve never heard of.
There, upset now?
“I am ignorant and don’t know anyone who is brown, look at how proud I am of that while making fun of a person getting brutally murdered after months of famine”
One of the 0.5M? gazans mass murdered by the US-and-Western-backed Israel genocide.
Al Jazeera reporter.
Imagine broadcasting your own ignorance like this, on purpose.
And who are you but a giant POS?
If you’ve never seen him you don’t watch the news.
